Art

October 2009

Vermeer & Monet at the Met & MoMA

by Karen Wilkin

On "Vermeer’s Masterpiece: The Milkmaid" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York & “Monet’s Water Lilies” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Johannes Vermeer, The Milkmaid (c. 1658), courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Was it serendipity or a coordinated bid to attract art lovers to New York that caused the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art to open exhibitions of sure-fir ...

Karen Wilkin is an editor at The Hudson Review and on the faculty at the New York Studio School. 


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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 October 2009, on page 49

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